Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin (7 May 1922-25 February 2006) was an American actor. Born William Lyle Richardson in Spokane, Washington, he had a turbulent childhood and ran away from home at eleven, living in abandoned warehouses in Tacoma during his teenage years. He worked as a painter at the Columbia Pictures movie studios before beginning his acting career in the 1940s, and he worked in film, on stage, and in theatre. He was a lifelong active Democrat, campaigning for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. McGavin died in Los Angeles in 2006 at the age of 83.